booster cable

booster cable
A pair of well-insulated electrical wires, with clamps at each end, designed to transfer an electrical current from one automotive battery to another in order to jump start a vehicle.

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  • booster cable — Auto. either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead. Also called jumper cable, jumper. * * * …   Universalium

  • booster cable — noun a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads • Syn: ↑jumper cable, ↑jumper lead, ↑lead • Hypernyms: ↑jumper, ↑wire, ↑conducting wire …   Useful english dictionary

  • booster cable — boost′er ca ble n. aum either of a pair of electric cables used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead Also called jumper I, 7) …   From formal English to slang

  • booster cable — See jumper cables …   Dictionary of automotive terms

  • cable — A cord generally made of strands of thin wire. Electrical cables are covered with a protective non conducting material. Control cables are housed within an outer sleeve. Also see booster cable bowden cable brake cable clutch cable control cable… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

  • jumper cable — noun a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads • Syn: ↑jumper lead, ↑lead, ↑booster cable • Hypernyms: ↑jumper, ↑wire, ↑conducting wire …   Useful english dictionary

  • jumper cable — noun A pair of insulated electrical wires used to jump start a car with a dead battery. He kept a jumper cable in an emergency box in the car, as he had once been caught with a dead battery. Syn: booster cable …   Wiktionary

  • Quadrature booster — A quadrature booster, also known as a phase shifting transformer or more simply a quad booster, is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of real power on three phase electricity transmission networks. For an alternating… …   Wikipedia

  • Coaxial cable — RG 59 flexible coaxial cable composed of: A: outer plastic sheath B: woven copper shield C: inner dielectric insulator D: copper core Coaxial cable, or coax, has an inner conductor surrounded by a flexible, tubular insulating layer, surrounded by …   Wikipedia

  • Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable — MIMS redirects here. For multi isotope imaging mass spectrometry, see Isotope mass spectrometry. PVC sheathed MICC cable. Conductor cross section area is 1.5 mm²; overall diameter is 7.2 mm …   Wikipedia

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